Ritter Alison, Bammer Gabriele, Hamilton Margaret, Mazerolle Lorraine
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, Australia.
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2007 May;26(3):265-71. doi: 10.1080/09595230701247665.
The aim of this paper is to describe a new comprehensive approach to studying illicit drug policy - one that integrates evidence, disciplinary approaches, drug use behaviours and policy making processes. The methods described here include systematic reviews of the evidence, studies of the ways in which policy decision-making actually occurs, and the use of modelling approaches that can explicate the multi-dimensional nature of drug policy responses and their dynamic interactions. The approach described has the potential to facilitate new drug policy that would not have been possible or apparent through the sole study of one aspect of drug policy, such as the evidence-base or the political context or the economics of drug markets. We believe this approach may be more likely to produce strategic drug policy because it reflects the richness and complexity of the real world of drug use, and drug policy. The purpose of employing an integrative methodology is to create the potential for new drug policy insights, ideas and interventions - not restricted to one body of evidence, nor to accidental or fortuitous policy-making processes.
本文旨在描述一种研究非法药物政策的全新综合方法——该方法整合了证据、学科方法、药物使用行为及政策制定过程。此处所述方法包括对证据的系统综述、对政策决策实际发生方式的研究，以及使用能够阐释药物政策应对措施的多维性质及其动态相互作用的建模方法。所描述的方法有可能促成新的药物政策，而仅研究药物政策的一个方面（如证据基础、政治背景或毒品市场经济学）则无法实现或显现这一点。我们认为这种方法更有可能产生战略性药物政策，因为它反映了药物使用及药物政策现实世界的丰富性和复杂性。采用综合方法的目的是为新的药物政策见解、想法及干预措施创造可能性——不受限于某一类证据，也不受限于偶然或意外的政策制定过程。
